SPEAKERS

Alexandra Johnson
Co-Founder and Managing Director at HEED Capital, Founder and Managing Director at Global Technology Capital and President of Global Technology Symposium. Sasha is an experienced investor at early-stage companies and was one of the first female partners
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JUDGES

Anna Degtereva
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Greg Shepard
Founding partner at BOSS Capital Partners, a global investment syndicate that focuses on series seed technology businesses that prefer operational expertise and guidance to achieve capital-efficient and rewarding outcomes.
He is also the creator of BOSS
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Jonathan Baer
Managing Partner of StoneHearth Ventures (formerly named Threshold Ventures) and a
recovering venture capitalist who loves working with companies around the world. He was a general partner at a Sand Hill Road venture fund and the founder and CEO of two v
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Phil Nadel
Founder and Managing Director at Forefront Venture Partners.
Phil has been a serial entrepreneur for many years, having founded and exited several startups. He is now the Managing Director of Forefront Venture Partners, one of the largest and most active
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Kirill Babich
Founding Partner at Malamute Startups Agency | Advisory Board member for Fintech & Venture Capital at Istern Capital
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David Mandel
Managing partner at Emerging Ventures
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Abhijeet Kumar
Co-Founder, ah! Ventures
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Bill Baker
Co-Founder/CBO & Initial Investor at NuQ
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Kaustav Chaudhuri
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Ruchi Dana, MD, MBA
Partner of DANA Group, Venture Partner of FundRx
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Brian Tetrud
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Dave Martinez
CEO and Founder of Dave Martinez Ventures.
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Fredrik Tukk
Head of Innovation Scouting at Maersk Drilling.
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Derek Distenfiled
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Bryan Feinberg
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Courtney Blackman
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Lev Filimonov
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Nektar Baziotis
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Katheline Coleman
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Danil Kislinskiy
Partner & VP of Global Business Intelligence at GSD Venture Studio (Santa Clara, California)
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Robert Neivert
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Jiazi Guo
Angel Investor. Partner at LEGO Ventures.
UC Berkeley Alumni, entrepreneur since age 16. Formerly investment banker, hedge fund. Currently active venture capitalist and mentor at alchemist accelerator and more.
UC Berkeley Alumni, entrepreneur since ag
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Sunil Ranka
Partner at ZNL Ventures and founder of Predikly
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Marcelo Carrullo
Managing Partner at Drummond Ventures
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Brett Noyes
Founder and Managing Director of Unbank.Ventures
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Kate Seledets
Investment Team at 500 Startups
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Jordan Wahbeh
Managing Partner of SV Venture Group
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Victoria Mehran
Venture Partner at Expert Dojo
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Roman Nikitov
Head of ICU Ventures
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Sudhir Kadam
Venture Partner at FYDA Growth Partners
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Marisa Alma McGinnis
LP, Blumberg Capital Fund III and Golden Seeds Silicon Valley Alum
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Alexander Soroka
Managing Partner at Network VC
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ORGANISERS

Startups pitching live

LexSet
Average rate:
4.53
Absolute winner
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MyPurpleFolder-"The PatientCare 'easy' Button"
Average rate:
3.95
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Teacherix
Average rate:
3.52
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OLIMP
Average rate:
3.35
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Munchron
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3.20
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Healthynox
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2.78
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Umbrosys Inc.
Average rate:
2.48
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Squaddd
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Global partners

Unicorn Battle,
June 25, 2020

The Winner of the Online Unicorn Battle in Chicago is LexSet.

LexSet, better data for better vision. They simulate  the world in 3D, creating limitless, unbiased data; dramatically improving AI accuracy and ease of development.

The second place went to:

MyPurpleFolder- "The PatientCare 'easy' Button"

MyPurpleFolder is on a mission to make it EASY for patients and their caregivers to navigate their own healthcare.

The third place went to:

Teacherix

We are enhancing our educator recruitment platform into AI-based search and select detecting three important sensitivities for teachers to thrive in an international environment. Social, Cultural, and Religious suitabilities.

We are grateful to the experienced and influenced VCs and Angel Investors, which joined the Judges’ Panel at the Online Unicorn Battle! 

You can find full list at the section Judges on the event page: https://battle.startup.network/events/408886/#judges

Many thanks to our Global Sponsors:

Network.VC (https://network.vc/

ICU (https://vc.icu.ua/)) - Kyiv-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with strong ties to Ukraine and Eastern Europe making late seed and series A investments across the tech spectrum.

 ICU Ventures is part of the ICU Group, an independent asset management firm founded in 2006 by senior investment professionals from ING. It is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region.  

Silicon Valley Syndicate Club (https://svsy.club/).

The next part of the Battle was dedicated to the Pitch Competition. 

Eight  pre-selected Startups were presented to the wide audience of the venture community.

During the Pitch Competition, Judges marked each startup. 

You can find the rating of all Startups according to the Judges' voting at the section Startups on the event page https://battle.startup.network/events/408886/#startups.

Startup.Network is grateful to Investors, Experts, Entrepreneurs and Guests who attended the Unicorn  Battle in Chicago.

Special thanks to our Partners:

Silicon.Finance and our media partner EVENTBROWSE

Our Special Guest was Alexandra Sasha Johnson and she told us about VC Investments During Pandemic. 

Link to the Live Stream: https://www.facebook.com/StartupN/videos/957321814784920


After Pitch Competition was networking and sharing contacts

Looking forward to seeing you all in our next events!



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AGENDA

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10:50 am - 11:05 am: Registration.



11:05 am - 11:15 am: Introduction by Organizers.



11:15 am - 12:00 pm: Jury introduction.



During this section, Jury will have 1 minute each to introduce themselves.



12:00 pm – 12:55 pm: Startups Competition.



Each founder will have 3 minutes for a pitch, and another 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges.



12:55 pm - 1:00 pm: Winners announcement.



1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Networking

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